Book Lovers Archives

February 13, 2014 9 min read

Janus is the ancient Roman god of beginnings and transitions; he looks to the past and to the future. Janus is...

Winter Tales

Dick Smart

Reviews Romance

January 8, 2014 6 min read

Winter is one of the most magical of seasons, at once dark and luminous. The winter holidays also carry with...

Romance Writers Engaged!

Dick Smart

Interviews Romance

November 25, 2013 12 min read

This month, Dick Smart interviews engaged romance writers T. J. Klune and Eric Arvin. Read More

The Books of Mormons

Dick Smart

Opinion Romance

October 31, 2013 55 min read

Dick Smart on "the surprising breadth of influence that Mormonism has had on contemporary gay literature." Read More

Homecomings

Dick Smart

Reviews Romance

September 29, 2013 7 min read

Welcome Back, Joe Joe Harding has come home after an eighteen-month tour of duty in Vietnam in Elliott Mackle’s latest...

Dangerous Boys

Dick Smart

Reviews Romance

August 29, 2013 10 min read

Sam Cameron’s Dangerous Boys Books Hardy Boys move over, the Anderson Twins are diving to their next crime scene. Navy...

Book Lovers: Raining Men

Dick Smart

Reviews Romance

July 24, 2013 4 min read

Rick R. Reed’s Raining Men It’s Raining Men (Dreamspinner Press, 2013) for Bobby Nelson in this superb sequel to Rick R. Reed’s best-seller, Chaser, and though Bobby’s...

Jay Bell: Something Like Love

Dick Smart

Interviews Romance

June 24, 2013 10 min read

Jay Bell, the winner of the 25th annual Lambda Literary Award in Gay Romance for his novel, Kamikaze Boys (Jay...

And the Winner is…

Dick Smart

Reviews Romance

May 27, 2013 15 min read

Envy the judges who were privileged to weigh the merits of the five finalists in Gay Romance for the 25th...

Folk Tales, Fairy Tales, and Dreams Come True

Dick Smart

Opinion Romance

April 24, 2013 13 min read

Missionary Position Companions (Nich’ooni) is an astonishingly powerful self-published novel by Jed A. Bryan (BecHavn,2012) that explores two unfamiliar American...

Reviews

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Random

The Queerness of Robots

Features

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

Interviews

Bonds & Boundaries: A Conversation with Dale Corvino

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

“What if it was both and all of the above?”: An interview with CJ Hauser

Excerpts

An Excerpt from Sleep Tight Satellite: Stories by Carol Guess

Read This! Excerpt from the delicacy of embracing spirals by mimi tempestt

Read This! Excerpt from American Gospel by Miah Jeffra

Transitions

Winter Tales

Romance Writers Engaged!

The Books of Mormons

Homecomings

Dangerous Boys

Book Lovers: Raining Men

Jay Bell: Something Like Love

And the Winner is…

Folk Tales, Fairy Tales, and Dreams Come True

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

The High Stakes of Young Adulthood: A Review of Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas

People Collide by Isle McElroy: A Review

Reviewing Bad Gays; or how we use the past to shape the future

A Review of Cassandra Khaw’s The Salt Grows Heavy

If property is theft, then what is a photograph? A Review of The Unintended by Monica Huerta